This Day in Rock History

May 15th

2003: June Carter Cash, wife of Johnny Cash died in Nashville, TN following heart surgery complications. She was 73 years old.

2000: Bob Dylan receives Sweden’s prestigious Polar Music Prize.

1997: The Muzak company announces that it will turn four Kiss songs into elevator friendly instrumentals. The Kiss songs to receive the Muzak treatment were Beth, Sure Know Something, A World Without Heroes & Every Time I Look at You.

1995: R.E.M. resume their tour in support of Monster in Mountain View, CA at the Shoreline Amphitheatre with Bill Berry having fully recovered from an aneurysm.

1975: Fleetwood Mac plays their first concert with Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, & John & Christie McVie in El Paso, TX.

1967: Paul McCartney meets future wife Linda Eastman for the first time at the Bag O’Nails club in London.

1945: The first album chart was introduced in the U.S. The albums were a collection of 78rpm singles.

Birthdays:
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Brian Eno-keyboardist for Roxy Music born in 1948
Mike Oldfield born in 1953



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